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Patrick. Atriston walked down the long, dimly lit hallway into the office that belonged to Yi Shui but was now used by Qin Lang. Two guards who might have belonged to the SWAT detachment stood on either side of the gate, wearing their oddly shaped black rubber masks, their wary gaze coming out from behind the lenses in the orbital position, scanning any moving objects that appeared in the hallway; Their weapons were always in their hands.

Then, one of them pulls the door open.

The room was dim, the curtains were closed, the chandelier was not opened, only a lamp on the desk gave a dim glow. Etriston calmly walked through the fine walnut door, stood in the doorway, and waited patiently for the guards at the door to close the door again, and then walked towards the desk. Qin Lang was on the chair behind the table, half-lying, his eyes closed, as if he was resting, as if he was thinking.

But Etriston didn't think much of it. He walked over and stood straight in front of his desk, waiting for Qin Lang to open his eyes. The base commander has a lot of time and patience to do this, ten minutes, twenty minutes, an hour...... It's not a problem, he can wait all the time.

Luckily, Qin Lang didn't make Ettriston wait too long. Only a moment later, probably less than two minutes, he opened his eyes.

The base commander spoke first. "What are your orders, boss?"

"Starting tomorrow, mercenaries returning from the Philippines will undergo intensive training for four weeks, during which no one will be allowed to leave the base."

"There are some locally recruited mercenaries who want to go home to visit relatives, what should I do?"

"All are vetoed. Soon, the company will be given new tasks, and the mercenaries must immediately return to operational condition. So, no matter what they want to do, even if someone is planning to leave the company, they still need to do four weeks of intensive training. And you, Mr. Etriston, you have to make sure that the training goes smoothly and is done. ”

"Yes, boss." He's happy to be in charge of it. Torture the guys who made a fortune in the Philippines with harsh training that bordered on brutality, and he loved to do such things. It's so wonderful that it's intoxicating.

He bowed to Qin Lang, and his heart began to get excited. But now Etriston had to do his best to restrain his interest and report another matter to Qin Lang in a calm tone.

"You have an appointment, boss. A Mr. Harriman from Washington will meet with you tomorrow morning. ”

Harriman? Qin Lang raised his eyebrows almost imperceptibly. As McKinley's staff, he didn't stay in Washington, what did he do in Canton Bay? And it seemed so mysterious, without notifying Dewey, MacArthur, or him, or anyone else, in advance, and using the normal procedure to make an appointment, what did Mr. Harriman want to do?

Maybe he's a secret envoy sent by McKinley, maybe he's representing Harriman, maybe he's representing every consortium connected to him...... But......

"You may leave, Mr. Etriston." After speaking, Qin Lang closed his eyes again and began to slowly think about Harriman's special secret mission; Bowing to him again, the base commander strode out of his office to arrange for the intensive training to begin tomorrow.

Tomorrow is destined to be a very interesting day.

It's just that this fun has nothing to do with anyone else. Undoubtedly, the four-week intensive training and the ban on leaving the base during that period made the mercenaries complain about it - both commanders and ordinary soldiers. Everyone needs to undergo rigorous intensive training, and Qin Lang means this: everyone, commanders, ordinary soldiers, no one is exempt - Etriston will not let anyone go.

This had never happened before: even in San Diego, the toughest training camp for mercenaries, commanders still had a considerable degree of freedom to leave the camp after training, and ordinary soldiers had weekend off. Everyone thinks someone has gone too far, and it must have been just out of jealousy of what they had achieved in the Philippines. Several commanders united and prepared to appeal to Qin Lang.

But their resistance was unsuccessful. On the one hand, Etriston had the highest level of authority, and on the other hand, Qin Lang did not have time to meet with the commanders.

He needed to spend every minute talking to Harriman.

As he had guessed, Harriman had an important top-secret mission - he was McKinley's envoy. Mr. President needs Qin Lang to provide him with some references on concrete steps to establish a new order of democracy and freedom in the Philippines, the most ideal means of eliminating the Philippine army, and an issue that is not worth considering in the past but which is now somewhat sensitive and needs to be taken seriously: how to deal with the Chinese in the Philippines.

Or to go into more detail: whether the Chinese Exclusion Act needs to be extended to the Philippines.

Initially, McKinley planned to wait for Qin Lang to return to the United States, and then call him to Washington to inquire in person, but everyone knew that Qin Lang would not return to the United States so soon, and after the end of the war, he still needed to attend the opening ceremony of the Zhanjiang Branch of the Virginia Military Academy and Tsinghua University, and he needed to discuss academic issues with some European scholars, and he needed to deal with some work of one kind or another. Even if he is the fastest, he will not leave Guangzhou Bay until October.

Unfortunately, McKinley couldn't wait that long, and there were some issues that had to be resolved as soon as possible, especially the one regarding the Chinese Exclusion Act.

This issue has already caused some debate within the government. Some, such as Mr. Danby at the State Department and Mr. Otis, who will become the first U.S. Governor General in the Philippines, insist that the exact same laws should be used in the Philippines as in the United States, including, of course, the Chinese Exclusion Act, while others, such as Dewey and Mahan, as well as some members of the Senate, oppose the implementation of the law in the Philippines.

Of course, both are in the minority, and most of the legislators and officials who are eligible to participate in the discussion have reservations about both the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the Philippines and the further easing of restrictions – although these mainstream voices are almost completely ignored, because at any time and in any place, there are always extreme opinions, and preferably two, so that more noticeable heated quarrels will erupt.

For the news media and the masses, what they need is sensational news that attracts attention, not the truth or moral justice.

"But what is certain is that if public opinion intervenes in this debate, calls for the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act will be strengthened." "Danby and Otis believe that this law will curry favor with indigenous Filipinos, ensure that calm is restored to the local situation, and ensure that indigenous support for U.S. ......," Harriman said.

"People's opinions don't really matter, do they?" Qin Lang interrupted him with a smile, "Senators are just overly worried about their votes. ”

"Qin!"

"I don't mean anything else, Mr. Harriman, but there's one thing that puzzles me. Since Washington agrees with my suggestion to turn the U.S. military occupation in the Philippines into a just act to establish a new order of democracy and freedom......" He deliberately paused for a moment to get Harriman's attention, and then asked: "Why do you want to appoint a Philippine governor?" ”

"What do you mean...... No appointment of a governor? Harriman was visibly taken aback by the accusation, a little incredulous, "If there is no governor, who do we rely on to run the Philippines?" ”

"Philippine government."

"What!"

"Don't be so surprised, my friend." Harriman's expression made Qin Lang laugh, and after a while, he became serious again, and pointed out solemnly, "Obviously, there is no one in Washington who has a correct understanding of what it means to establish a new order of democracy and freedom. ”

"Of course. Before you came up with it, no one had heard of such a means. Harriman was both complaining and self-deprecating. Qin Lang is not a professional politician, but according to the ideas he has shown, he is more like a professional politician than any professional politician. There is no doubt that he is smart, but it is too much.

Qin Lang laughed secretly. It's not that the professional politicians in Washington can't think of or understand what he came up with, in fact that's what they eventually came up with. It's just that sophisticated and mature politicians tend to be very conservative and accustomed to using methods that have been used repeatedly and have proven to work, rather than rushing to use a new method. As for the young, reform-driven and innovative novices, they are often not in a decisive position, and their proposals are easily ignored and suppressed.

The talents of young politicians are often brought to full play only in times of turmoil or when society is generally dissatisfied with reality, but now the situation in the United States is as calm as a stagnant pool, and the only worker movement that can cause a stir has been suppressed.

It is a group of conservatives who now control the United States, so they cannot understand his approach for the time being.

So they need him.

"As for my method, in fact, it should be done......" Qin Lang began to explain in detail what it meant to "establish a new social order of democracy and freedom"—so detailed that he told everything he knew. It took a lot of time, nearly two hours, and he concluded: "In short, Washington doesn't need to appoint a Philippine governor, it just needs to organize a Philippine government, and the United States just sends political, economic and military advisers to that government, and has a peacekeeping force in the Philippines until we think the Philippines is a democracy." ”

As for when the Philippines will become a democracy, only the United States can decide. Harriman nodded, then asked, "Who should we choose to organize the Philippine government?" ”

"Two kinds of people." Qin Lang said, "Filipino landlords and bourgeoisie; Chinese. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )